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There have been times, during recent decades, when plot developments in the Anglican Communion drama have become so complicated that I have been tempted to open columns with a written cue for a swirl of organ music under the caption “As Canterbury Turns.”
In the next day or so, much fuss likely will be made about how the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops has agreed to a one-year moratorium on approving any newly elected bishops.
Two posts on Salon today prove that the alt-daily website can cover religion just as well, although not nearly as often, as it covers the sacrament of sex.
When the Rev. George Conger is on an Anglican story, it’s hard to top his firsthand reporting for thoroughness, relevant details and good humor.
This link is provided as a public service to reporters north of the border (Hello to Michael Valpy at The Globe and Mail) who need to be able to talk to conservative Anglicans (other than on the telephone) during the coming years of tense conflict in the Anglican Communion. Talking to these endangered ecclesiastical beasts will help reporters cover both sides of this stunningly complex and emotional story. “In what is likely to be the largest gathering of orthodox Canadian Anglicans in the history of the Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Essentials Canada will be playing host to the ‘Open Door’ Conference in Toronto, Ontario.” The date for calendars? June 16, 2005. Now, has anyone seen any good events on the left?
A GetReligion reader north of the border — not one of the Web Elves — dropped me an interesting note a day or two ago about the unfolding drama within the Anglican Communion.
Anglican-beat reporters, please repeat after me once again: The Africans pray, the Americans pay and the British write the resolutions.
“Church ends taboo on mercy killings,” crowed the headline on Sunday’s Observer, and the story that followed, by social affairs editor Jamie Doward, carried on in the same excited manner:
